tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post5586369531189357829..comments2014-05-09T13:25:02.936-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: More thoughts on Ebert's PoeMartinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-37875151421014754922008-09-24T11:20:00.000-05:002008-09-24T11:20:00.000-05:00Another guy who very clumsily pulled the same thin...<I>Another guy who very clumsily pulled the same thing was our good buddy Patrick, who, after receiving well over 100 emails that universally panned his weird lawsuit crusade, wrote to tell us that the whole thing was an "experiment." Right.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, Patrick of course was pulling a Yomin and lying to cover his butt. Ebert was trying to make a point abut critical thinking, and while I thought it was a good joke, I could see how people might have been fooled, and I had this to say in my comment left over at Ebert's blog.<BR/><BR/><I>...if there was an overreaction by a lot of science bloggers and like-minded people, well, it can only be a reflection of the dismay we all feel at seeing proper science education not merely undermined but deliberately torn to shreds by religious ideologues and promoters of pseudoscience and those with a pure hatred of knowledge itself, who sneer at you as "elitist" if you display even a hint of that thar highfalutin book-larnin'. This election year, the GOP has chosen as a vice-presidential candidate a woman who thinks the earth is 6000 years old and that the founding fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.</I><BR/><BR/><I>As America loses a whole generation of young minds that might otherwise have opened up new frontiers in scientific discovery, our nation will fall farther and farther behind. We're currently dependent on foreign powers for our energy. Next, will it be medicine? Or any other kind of life-sustaining advance that only science can bring us? Because over here, we've forgotten how to learn, only how to obey authority and memorize dogma with no regard to how true or false it may be?</I><BR/><BR/>A lot of people are echoing PZ's points over there, too.Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.com